Hyman bliimberg and leon jacobson



(.No Model.)

H. BLUMBERG & L. JAGOBSON.

BOTTLE FILLING APPARATUS.

No. 571,104. Patented Nov. 10, 1896..

WITNESSES UNITED STATES Eric's,

PATENT HYMAN BLUMBERG AND LEON JACOBSON, OF NEYV YORK, N. Y.

BOTTLE-FILLING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 571,104, datedNovember 10, 1896. Application filed January 2, 1896. Serial No.574,034. (No model.)

To (LZZ whom, it nuty concern.-

Be it known that we, HYMAN BLUMBERG and LEON J ACOBSON, citizens of theUnited States, and residents of New York city, county of New York, andState of New York, have invented certain new and useful I1nprovements inBottle-Filling Apparatus, of which parts, can be readily operated, andis inexpensive and durable.

The invention will be hereinafter fully described, and specifically setforth in the annexed claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view showingourimproved apparatus attached to a barrel, and Fig. 2 is a sectionalelevation taken on aline mo of Fig. 1.

In the practice of our invention we provide a distributer, comprising aflattened and closed compartment A and a tubular inlet a. Leadingdownwardly through the compartment A from a tightly-fitting partition aare a series of tubes B. These said tubes are composed of block-tin andterminate at the lower wall a of the compartment A. Depending downwardlyfrom this said wall a and communicating with the lower ends of the tubesB are other tubes 13. These said tubes are composed of brass or othersuitable metal which will not readily bend; but in order to protect theliquid adapted to pass through them they must be supplied with aninterior coating b of tin, whereby the combination of the tubes B withthe tubes B will produce continuous tubular channels of tin, which metalwill not have any deleterious efiect upon beer or other liquid adaptedto pass through the apparatus.

In order to insure that an equal amount of liquid will be containedwithin each of the tubes B, they must all be of exactly the same length.They are therefore bent into compound curves, as illustrated in Fig. 1.

The inlet-channel dis provided with a valve 0, adapted to control theflow of liquid therethrough.

To complete the operative parts of the device a flexible tubular channelD is provided. This channel is connected at one end with the inlet a,and it is provided with a sliding cork or bung (Z, which cork is adaptedto engage with a'bunghole of a barrel, cask, or other vessel beingemptied.

To the lower or outer end of the flexible tube D we attach a screen (1.This will prevent anything but liquid substance from entering the tubeD. At a point near the juncture of the tube D with the inlet a weprovide the said tube with an arm or branch D, to the outer end of whichbranch is attached a hollow screw-plug d which plug engages with ascrew-cap (1 'In the operation of the device the bung of a barrel orcask is removed in the ordinary way The end of the tube D which carriesthe hollow bung cl is then projected downwardly into the barrel, and thebung d is brought into tight engagement with the bun ghole 6 of thebarrelE. The tubes B are then inserted, respectively, into the necks ofthe bottles. The cap d is then removed from the plug (1 and suction isapplied from the plug (1 through the branch I) and the tube D until theliquid starts to flow from the barrel, after which thecap d can bereplaced and the valve 0 opened, thuspermitting the liquid to siphon outof the barrel until the bottles are filled, when the valve C must beclosed and another set of bottles brought into engagement with the tubesB. This operation can be repeated until the barrel is emptied, when theapparatus can be readily removed therefrom and attached to anotherbarrel, cask, or other vessel which it is desired to empty.

We do not confine ourselves to the specific 5 detail of mechanicalconstruction as illustrated in the drawings and herein described, as itis obvious that under the scope of our invention we are entitled to makeslight changes.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-- In a bottle-filling apparatus, thecombina- IOO tion of a flexible siphon having a capped branch and atubular valved outlet leading therefrom, which outlet engages with apartition in the contracted upper portion of a closed triangularcompartment, said partition having leadingtherefrom a plurality ofblocktin tubes which are all of the same length and which are spreadapart at their lower ends and extended through the lower wall of thesaid triangular compartment and respectively joined to depending tubesof equal length adapted to discharge liquid into bottles, substantiallyas shown and described.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our invention we have signedour names, in I 5 presence of two witnesses, this 31st day of December,1895.

HYHAN BLUMBERG. LEON JACOBSON. Witnesses THOMAS C. SHANNON. MAROELLA G.MAOLEAN.

